The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion, T&TEC has con­tin­ued its pub­lic light­ing pro­gramme with the com­mis­sion­ing of lights at the Cro­ton and Gar­de­nia Recre­ation Ground in Mal­abar.

Speak­ing at the launch on Sat­ur­day evening, Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for D’Abadie/ O’Meara, Lisa Mor­ris Ju­lian, not­ed the com­mis­sion­ing of lights at the fa­cil­i­ty sym­bol­ised the pow­er of light over dark­ness. She added that it sig­nalled a new era of sport­ing ac­tiv­i­ty for the Mal­abar Com­mu­ni­ty, which stands in stark con­trast to a pre­vi­ous sports pro­gramme in­sti­tut­ed by a for­mer ad­min­is­tra­tion that served to en­gen­der a cul­ture of vi­o­lence among its par­tic­i­pants.

The project was com­plet­ed at a to­tal cost of ap­prox­i­mate­ly $960,000.

Echo­ing her sen­ti­ments was Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, the Ho­n­ourable Mar­vin Gon­za­les, who not­ed that the new­ly in­stalled lights pro­vid­ed the ide­al op­por­tu­ni­ty for the res­i­dents of Mal­abar to en­gage in the kind of pos­i­tive ac­tiv­i­ty that would help to re­build their com­mu­ni­ty.